Category: Education

Last week Wine Intelligence, the self-proclaimed "leading research-led strategy consultancy serving the global wine industry," released the following:
Consumers wary of blogger recommendations, according to research
Independent bloggers are one of the least trusted wine information sources in the UK, ...

We were among the 3200 attendees at Millésime Bio 2011 last week in Montpellier, South of France, sponsored by Sud de France and organized by our hosts the AIVB-LR (Association Interprofessionnelle des Vins Biologiques de Languedoc-Roussillon).
Now in its 18th year, ...

There is a wine from the oft called "Garden of France" that is the perfect pairing for fresh seafood. So much so that whenever I reach into the wine chiller and suggest it, Joe chastises me, "No, that's for when ...

There are plenty of people who do exactly what they're told. Who follow all of the rules. Who "know their place" from birth to death. The type of people who do not see a bullfighter's red cape when someone tells ...

Longtime readers know that this time every year I extol the virtues of making a brine starting with a homemade stock. It is a time-intensive process, although not really hard to do. Not this year. I am going to try ...

Wine usually starts in the vineyard, but this one started with a phone number.
Galen Struwe lives in Minnesota. But it wasn't always so. Traveling with business colleagues from Florida some years ago he found himself in a Minneapolis restaurant for ...

People love to ask about our favorite local wine merchant. Truth be told, we don't have one. In fact most of our wine is shipped to us. So it's safe to say our favorite wine usually comes via FedEx.
Occasionally though, ...

Where can you find over 1,000 Rhône wines at one International Food and Wine Event? France, you say? No siree, Bob. To find some of the best examples of the 22 Rhône varieties all in one place you'll need ...

When I worked the election one year, my assignment was to sit in my kids' intermediate school cafeteria and watch for monkey business. Given we live in Texas, I wasn't surprised to see a little voter intimidation, suppression and some ...

Today at work, while our system was down for the upteenth time this week, I was listening to a Wine Biz Radio podcast. Kaz and Randy were discussing the "stupid robbers" who in the middle of the night stole a ...